Creating Memorable At Home Celebrations For Your Children
When you’re with your children, every moment is a magical moment. Whether playing in the yard, enjoying family movie night, or constructing arts and crafts, experiences are what everyone is sure to remember, rather than material items. While you can’t slow down time, you can certainly savor the seconds you spend with one another. There’s always something to be grateful for and celebrate. Consider creating memorable at home celebrations for your children! Stuck when it comes to ideas or themes? These popular at home celebrations will delight every member of your family.
Family Friday
While it’s not a national holiday or an official monthly celebration, there’s tons of families across the nation that enjoy a Family Friday. This at home celebration becomes a weekly tradition and can be enjoyed in a number of ways. Whether always grabbing a pizza for dinner, playing board games with one another, enjoying a movie, or rejoicing that the weekend is here; this is a day of the week everyone will look forward to because the entire family is together. Create a sign together, that can be reused and that sits prominently in a common space so everyone can clearly see it during the festivities.
Sunday Funday
Similar to Family Friday, Sunday Funday is another way you can rejoice and relax! The sky's the limit in regard to choosing activities-from water balloon toss, to cooking smores; Sunday Funday is all about doing what you love. Whether you cuddle up around a fire and read out loud from a favorite book or go sledding in the winter time, or design your own instruments and perform as a rock band; this tradition is a wonderful way to end the weekend.
Hawaiian Luau
Bring the Hawaiian islands to your home! Each summer, you can enjoy a Hawaiian luau. Invite friends, family, or the entire neighborhood! As a family, make your own decorations, string beads together to form a version of a lei,fire up that grill, and make fun themed snacks and drinks that channel the spirits of the islands. While you may not be able to have hula dancers and flame twirlers in your yard, you can have clips playing on repeat on your tv or on a projector screen if you have one that can be set up outside (which looks totally cool at night).
Fall Fest
One of the best things about fall is all the festivities! If you aren’t able to get out and about this fall, bring the fun into your home one weekend in October. Conduct carving contests, bob for apples, jump into leaf piles, and bake a seasonal pie together as a family unit. Consider decorating every room in your home (not just your living room or kitchen) with fun fall garb. Participate in leaf rubbings for free, instant art; and don’t forget to wear fall themed shirts with cute, catchy sayings on them (“It’s fall, y’all!). All of these easy to implement events make wonderful photo opportunities and are personal moments you can experience within the comfort and confine of your own home or yard.
Carnival
What kid wouldn’t love a carnival set up around their home? This celebration can be filled with games, comfort food, music, and even prizes (and can be enjoyed during any season)! Using recyclables from your trash, set up indoor bowling, knock down cans, or any other games you create or wish to play. You can make tickets to give out and collect to spend on an array of prizes ranging from lollipops, to stuffed animals, or even some Dollar store stuff. Raise the ante and come up with some more personal prizes, such as a chore pass, stay up late card, or extra dessert coupon. Set up an ice cream station, where the kids can make their own sundaes, or a popcorn center, where they can sprinkle seasonings on their tasty treat. Don’t forget to hang up some string lights, or even set up a makeshift “tent” from old blankets to hang out in.
Choosing your theme is the fun part. Here are also some additional reasons why you may want to create memorable at home celebrations with your family:
It’s the perfect stay-cation activity!
An at home celebration leaves you spending zero dollars on gas, requires no travelling, and it allows everyone to remain cool and comfy at home.There’s no packing, crowds, and you get plenty of quality time together.
Establishes an At Home Connection
They don’t say, “Home is Where the Heart is” for no reason at all. An impromptu celebration is just another memory made in your children’s home.
Can Continue Over a Week
Consider stretching your celebration out all week long. Rather than completing a ton of activities in one day, help your kiddos wake up excited each morning to learn what they’re going to do.
Encourages Creativity and Community
When planning and participating in an at home celebration, your children will build upon their creativity skills, their team work, communication, and patience! They will also learn acceptance of other cultures, empathy skills, and will learn that you don’t have to travel anywhere to have fun. This teaches them gratitude for the little things in life and that family is important.
Brings Awareness to Different Celebrations
Learn all about a holiday or celebration by completing hands on crafts, having discussions, and making art work that channels a culture or celebration.
Makes For Wonderful Photo and Video Opportunities
Great for capturing the kids around the table or yard, enjoying all the festivities! These photos and videos will capture your ability to have fun as a family unit.
Here are also some other easy ways to enhance your at home celebration:
- Create a themed music playlist
- Invite friends and other family members to take part
- Conduct research prior to planning your event
- Prepare a related snack or meal
- Read trade books or novels that complement kit theme
- Dress or talk the part!
Creating memorable at home celebrations for your children will help them appreciate their surroundings, refine their creativity, build on their background knowledge, and teach them that family time is a fun time! Each celebration your family participates in can be unique, innovative, and memory making for all. What are you waiting for?
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